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Facts do exist. They can be denied, contested, and disputed, but they do exist. What's playing out in the newsphere now is a battle for dominance of one set of facts over another: it's a fact that facts exist!!! The denial of facts has been used politically to advance political agendas in the US, UK, and [...]

It's a beautiful paradox that what we really need to open our minds is to use points of tension and conflict to see beyond our own often limited belief systems and ideally envision a new possibility. This may have been the lofty, spiritual goal of the marketing department at Fiat Chrysler when they created this 2018 [...]

I was surprised by the quiet beauty of Georgetown, Colorado, a small, historic mountain town close to I-70, the main route to the state's ski resorts. A new blanket of snow had just fallen transforming the charming hamlet into a winter wonderland--the stuff of storybooks. To ensure that we were sufficiently wowed by the scenic [...]

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” This is among the most beloved and widely circulated quotations from the Jesuit scholar, mystic, and philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Most of us have it backwards! We think we have to surrender our humanity to be spiritual, [...]

If you answered "no," I ask you to reconsider. At his commencement address to newly-graduated doctoral students at the University of Florida, National Book Award Winner and History Professor Ibram X Kendi asks us to look at intelligence differently. If you have a desire to know, if you're open-minded, if you have a tremendous capacity [...]

We long for connection, a hunger for awareness of the other. We are evolving through our connections with each other, which are becoming more complex, powerful and sophisticated. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin defined this as the noosphere, the glue that binds us together in a cosmic sense. It is an integral consciousness—the understanding that the [...]

Seasoned war reporter rejects the 'mean world syndrome' You've probably seen Robin Wright on the PBS Newshour, Charlie Rose, or CBS's Face The Nation. She's spent most of her life reporting on wars and conflicts: her column, ISIS On The Run, was in the October 17, 2016 New Yorker. The world-traveling reporter recently returned to her [...]